Jiné texty, jiní autoři - (Mezi)prostory současné literatury – Odehnalová Lenka (2024)

In the book Other Texts, Other Authors. [In]Between Spaces of Contemporary Literature, the authorial collective focuses on the transformations of genres and approaches to literary creation in contemporary Russian, Belarusian, German, and Czech literature. Lenka Odehnalová tracks the transformation of the traditional genre (the novel chronicle) in contemporary Russian literature through examples of works available in Czech translation (Jacob's Ladder by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes by Guzel Yakhina, and The Pilot by Evgeny Vodolazkin). Nadezhda Heinrichová addresses the German graphic novel in the 21st century, highlighting its thematic diversity and pointing out the connection between visuality, biography, and autobiography. Jana Kostincová examines the activities of artist Roman Osminkin from a posthumanist perspective, reflecting on the collective artistic-activist projects of the Techno-Poetry group, as well as Osminkin's autoethnographic writing. Jaroslav Sommer deals with the texts of Tony Lashden (representing contemporary Belarusian feminist creation), in which themes related to identity issues, including the experience of emigration, as well as domestic violence, self-harm, and the relationship to one's own body, are processed. Tereza Šmídová focuses on Czech fanfiction inspired by a number of fantasy novels in the Harry Potter series. Specifically, she...